Crossword-Solution: ACERB 5 letters, 139 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Acerb	a.	Sour, bitter, and harsh to the taste, as unripe fruit; sharp and harsh.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
ACERB	anagram	BRACE, CABER

We have 139 clues for the answer “ACERB”

Clue	Answers
Acid in mood.	1 answer
Acidic to the taste	1 answer
Astringent in taste	1 answer
Biting, as humor, poetically	1 answer
Biting, variantly	1 answer
Bitingly ironic.	1 answer
Bitter to the taste	1 answer
Bitter, in poetry	1 answer
Bitter, literarily	1 answer
Bitter, old style	1 answer
Bitterly written	1 answer
Caustic, as criticism	1 answer
Tart in taste or temperament	1 answer
Cutting, as criticism	1 answer
Face-scrunching	1 answer
Harsh and sharp.	1 answer
Harsh in taste	1 answer
Harsh-tasting.	1 answer
Like immature fruit	1 answer
Like lemon juice (var.)	1 answer
Like the taste of vinegar	1 answer
Like unripe fruit	1 answer
Sharp in taste	1 answer
Sharp of tongue	1 answer
Sharp, as a comment	1 answer
Sharp, as criticism	1 answer
Sharp, to poets	1 answer
Sharply bitter, as a comment	1 answer
Sharply critical.	1 answer
Sour and astringent.	1 answer
Sour in tone	1 answer
Sour in tone (5)	1 answer
Sour of flavor.	1 answer
Sour tasting	1 answer
Sour tasting, old-style	1 answer
Sour-tasting, old-style	1 answer
Tart in tone	1 answer
Tart in tone or temper	1 answer
Tart of tone	1 answer
Very Tart	1 answer
Very critical	1 answer
With a tart taste	1 answer
her acrid remarks make her many enemies	1 answer
Acid-tongued	2 answers
Biting, as criticism	2 answers
Bitter in taste	2 answers
Harsh, as criticism	2 answers
Like a sourball	2 answers
Like green apples	2 answers
Severe, as criticism	2 answers

✏️ Suggest another clue Know another question for crossword solution "ACERB"? Please add your clue to the biggest crossword databank now!

Length times width e.g.

?

A

?

R

?

E

?

A

Hint 1 meaning

The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.

Hint 2 anagram

ARAE

Hint 3 another clue

CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE

Play Crossword

36 +2

New Suggestion for "ACERB"

Related word tools

Unscramble ACERB 5-letter words that start with A 5-letter words that end in B 5-letter words containing CE 5-letter words containing RB 5-letter words with A and C

Sentences with ACERB (5)

And crave we her medical herb, We have but to see and hear, Though pierced by the cruel acerb, The troops of the memories armed Hostile to strike at the nest That nourished and flew them warmed.

Poems, Volume 2 [of 3] George Meredith 2015

With secret sympathy My thoughts repeat in me Infirm The turn o’ the worm Beneath my appointed sod: The grave is in my blood; I shake To winds that take Its grasses by the top; The rains thereon that drop Perturb With drip acerb My subtly answering soul; The feet across its knoll Do jar Me from afar.

Poems Francis Thompson 2015

The food that to him now is as luscious as locusts shall be to him shortly as acerb as the coloquintida.

Othello, the Moor of Venice William Shakespeare 1998

Separated from a certain fascination that there was for her in Edward's acerb wit, she saw that he was doing a dastardly thing in cold blood.

Rhoda Fleming, v3 George Meredith 2003

Yet his carriage was assuredly not that of middle age, and indeed, the total of his personality, neither young nor old, neither callow nor acerb, neither lightly unreserved nor too gravely severe, offered certain problems not capable of instant solution.

The Law of the Land Emerson Hough 2004

Quotes with ACERB (1)

So the freshness lives onin a lemon, in the sweet-smelling house of the rind, the proportions, arcane and acerb.

Pablo Neruda Odes to Common Things

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Slate, Three Across, Tribune, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 333 times in crossword archives (1942–2024).